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i saw something on this subject a few years ago in a publication from brooklyn but can't find it now.
it referred to the 8/1/80 wt about what the greek word for apostasy really means, 'a standing away from', but showed that a person didn't have to share what he believed that differed from what the society taught to be df'd for it.. blondie!
I saw something on this subject a few years ago in a publication from Brooklyn but can't find it now. It referred to the 8/1/80 WT about what the Greek word for apostasy really means, 'a standing away from', but showed that a person didn't have to SHARE what he believed that differed from what the society taught to be DF'd for it.
Blondie! Anybody! Help! :)
i know we've heard a lot of horror stories about jcs and getting disfellowshipped.........................but what is your experiences of continuing going to the meetings to be reinstated.............what did it really feel like?.
did you mind being ignored or did you understand it and take it on the chin?.................................what were your familys treatment of you during the period of having to sit on the back row????.
when i saw ppl comming in late and leaving early .....................i just knew it was wrong, wrong , wrong to treat ppl that way.. in fact i got told off for smiling at a sister who i knew genuinly wanted to come back,( the pos wife told me ) i did it out of human feelings and was then blasted.. after she got reinstated, i was the first person she came upto and introduced herself.
I remember one time I said "hi, nice to see you" to a DF'd friend, then a elder came over to me and said, "she's disfellowshipped, why are you talking to her?" I said, "all I did was say hi and nice to see you....isn't it nice to see her?" He just walked away.... oooooh, can you feel the love?
i have been lurking on these forums for about 6 months and thought it was time to join in.. i was a child/teen when i first became introduced to jehovah's witnesses through my mum who studied for a while but never fully committed.
i had a study and attended some meetings but it all petered out by the time i hit my late teens and we moved to another town.. for the following 10 years i just lived my life how i pleased.
got married etc.
Moomin~
Welcome! Good for you for seeing the light so quickly, and keep posting!
when i was an active witness i never understood why there were 'annointed' women that would be ruling right beside god and helping rule over the whole earth.
but, they were not allowed or good enough to be 'elders' and just rule over a tiny little congregation.
i know now this should have been a red flag for me...but, i just thought oh well this scripture says that men are to be the head of woman.
There are so many red flags.....
I remember my elder dad and I talking for years about how stupid it was not to allow beards in the cong., neither of us agreed with that dumb rule, and it should have been a big red flag for us. When I quit going to meetings, my dad came over to my house and did everything to get me to go back to meetings, and demanded that I tell him what was going on.....the beard thing was one of the things that came up, AND HE NOW IS DEFENDING THE STUPID RULE! "The society has to have control over people", he said. So I told him, "well, they don't control me anymore". That was the beginning of the end between us as family, but i'll never forget recognizing mind control for the first time.
when i got off for lunch today i decided to go to the walmart deli and get something to eat.
it is a huge store, groceries, a bakery, mc donalds, a bank , eye center, beauty shop, a great deli, and a huge garden center.
i had taken back a 80 gig hard drive dvd recorder ( i couldn't figure out how to hook up <smile> and had received 238.00. i picked up a couple of things in the store then went to the deli.
Wow, as a newbie i'm not sure I want to jump into this pool, oh well....
My girlfriend disagrees, but I don't think anyone has hurt Annie's feelings, and I love the comments that have been made on this thread. It's just discussing a subject,......geez. Ok, some people believe in Jehovah and some don't. Did it ever occur to anybody that the people who believe in a "jehovah god" got their panties in a knot because of the funny names like "jehoover", "jehovie", etc.?
I don't believe in him anymore, but that's just me. I'm just glad to be able to believe whatever I want these days .
Annie, i'm glad you got your purse back but I think you were just lucky this time! Is it ok if I say "lucky"?!
so, i went to my friendly neighborhood tattoo parlor today, and recieved my second and third (or 19th and 20th - depending on how you look at it) tattoo.
the chest is an extremely sensitive area, and so i was very aware that i was alive for the majority of the time.. oh, birds are often seen as a symbol of freedom, happiness, and arriving safely.
bones show regret, loss.. .
Good for you Rich, nice ink!
i had to go home over the weekend to pick up more furniture and such.
im moving into an apartment finally in lafayette.
anywho, i had 3 run ins with johos over the weekend and they were all pleasant.
Good for you IP! I got shunned at the market about a hour ago from some former dub friends. I see witnesses I know all the time, I even work around a couple elders! Some will say a little hello if other people are around (so they won't look stupid just ignoring someone who said "hi John!") .....most dubs act like they wouldn't spit on me if my hair was on fire...........
my parents just got a phone call from a longtime inactive witness who heard from his very active witness wife that they were announced df'd.
we don't know if its it true or not becuase none of us go to meetings anymore and have no inside sources at the hall to tell us (as we are apostates, who would tlak to us????
) the elders have tried a couple times to talk to them but my dad avoids them.
Sure they can, and they do it all the time!
When I left, I tried to fade, but after a few months I was told they had an investigation going, and they wanted to meet with me because they had found (not true) reasons for disfellowshipping....
I told them, "I won't be there tomarrow night, my grandmother's funeral is tomarrow afternoon". It didn't matter, they told me that if I don't attend they would DF me. So, I walked in the hall and handed them a letter DA'ing myself. I know how those meetings work. I was really emotionally "spent" and really didn't care anymore.
If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't be so easy on them.........GYMBB
a few days ago my wife commented on a letter sent out to all congregations (in the u.s.a.?
) regarding donations.
se said it was long and boaring, but in the end there where a few points she remembered.
It seems that a few years back, the WTB&TS was bragging about how they never had to (and never would) ask for money, now, I don't get it....how is it that a group of people who claim that the creator of the universe directs what they do (WOW!)...... need to ASK FOR MONEY?? GYMBB
yesterday, at 5 in the afternoon, my 17 year old son was swarmed and beaten by a gang of 6 young males.
in broad daylight, on the busiest corner of the city, in front of his horrified girlfriend and about 300 passers-by.
he is in the hospital with head injuries.
Stealth~
Sorry man,......but thank you for posting what happened so others can take caution.
Here in California we see alot of gang activity (red/blue s**t), it sucks! But just wait for the paradise!! (sorry, I couldn't help it!).
We were told what the world was like before we left..... most of it was wrong, but some of it was true...there are some great people out there, but there are also some bad people out there too.
Be careful. GYMBB
